PHYE 155
Health & Wellness
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PHYE 155
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Instructor: Justin Minden
Office: Gym 216
Phone: 732-6484
Email: Justin Minden
TERMS OFFERED
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Fall 2003 |
8/25/03-12/18/03 8:00pm-8:50pm W |
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Spring 2004 |
1/20/03-5/14/03 6:00pm-8:50pm W |
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Summer 2004 |
Course Description:
This course provides an overview of current health topics relevant to students.
It stimulates awareness of personal health decisions and their relationship
to optimal self-care patterns and lifestyles.
Objectives:
The objective of this course is to bring you to an awareness of good physical,
intellectual, spiritual, environmental, emotional and social health.
Goal:
The major goal of this class is to provide you with the information and motivation
to help you select the lifestyle that will make you a happy and healthy person.
Textbook:
Core Concepts in Health; Insel/Roth; 9th edition
CLASS REQUIREMENTS:
1.) Attend classes.
2.) Read the text.
3.) Take All the examinations. (Check reserve file in library)
4.) Complete outside assignments. (Some bonus points are available.)
5.) Quizzes. (These are usually announced.)
6.) Make-ups not allowed on daily assignments. Turn them in ahead of schedule
or have someone else turn in the assignment on or before the due date.
7.) Portfolios may be submitted in lieu of the final exam.
GRADING:
Grading will be based on the following percentages of total points.
Three interval exams 400 points 90% - 100% of total points A
Final exam/Portfolio 150 points 80% - 89% of total points B
Outside assignments 150 points 70% - 79% of total points C
Quizzes 100 points 60% - 69% of total points D
Approximate Total 800 points 59% and under total points F
Make it your goal to meet with your instructor(s) at least once per semester. Please make your appointments several days in advance. Have a great semester.
Outline - Fall 2002
Unit I
Aug. 28 Orientation and Introduction; Assign Chapters 1, 13 &15.
Cardiovascular Disease,
Chapter 15; THR's Cardiovascular Disease.
Sept. 04 Complete Chapter 15; Blood Pressure Lecture and Measurement. Assign Chapters 12 & 14. Pick up Unit I Study Guide. Blood profiles for bonus.
11 "Fit or Fat" "12 Years to Get Fat". Check body composition; Work on study guide; Assign worksheets #56 & #57.
18 Lecture Chapter 12, Nutrition Guidelines; Lecture Chapter 14 Weight
Management;
Unit I Study Guide due. Worksheets #56 & #57 due.
25 Unit I Exam- Assign Chapters 9,10,11 & 18; Assign worksheets #46,
#77 & #85.
Unit II
Oct. 02 Chapter 11 Tobacco and Alcohol, Nicotine Adulteration; Low Tar
Myth. Pick up Unit
II Study Guide.
09 Work on Study Guide. "War on Drugs"; Lecture Chapters 9
&16; worksheets #46, #77 & #85 due.
16 Assign Chapter 10; STD's; Infectious Diseases, Chapter 18. "When
Sex Causes
Cancer".
23 AIDS activity. STD's; Infectious Diseases, Chapter 18. Unit II Study Guide Due. Lecture Chapter 16- Cancer
30 Unit II Exam Assign Chapters 2, 3, 23 & 24; Assign worksheets #9, #10, #12, & #16.
Unit III
Nov. 06
Assign Environmental Projects; "Stress Hurts"; Type "A"/
Type "B"; Pick-up study guide. The Biology of Stress".
13 "Stressed to Kill" Stress and Memory Loss. Lecture Chapters 2 & 3; Worksheets #9 & #10 due.
20 Date Rape Chapter 23; Communication Life Management Skills Lecture (LMS) Lecture Chapter 24; "In and Out of Control". Unit III Study Guide Due; Worksheets #12 & #16 due.
27 Unit III Exam; Portfolios Due; Environmental Project Practice
Dec. 04 Environmental Projects due.
11 Environmental Projects due.
18 Final Exam; Environmental Projects due.
OUTCOMES ASSESSMENTS
All or most of the following criteria will be used to measure student outcomes:
In class examinations and quizzes
Outside of class assignments
Portfolios
Bonus points
Short essays
In-class assessments
Blood Pressures
CVD risk analysis
Body composition
Nutritional analysis
Stress analysis
Personality tests
Communication exams
Student Self-Assessments
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Check Appendix "A"
Chapter #1
Describe the six dimensions of wellness and a wellness lifestyle.
Explain the importance of personal decision-making and behavior change in achieving
a wellness lifestyle.
Create a portfolio plan to observe and report health related behavior.
Chapter #2
Explain what stress is and how people react to it - physically, emotionally,
and behaviorally.
Describe the relationship between stress and disease.
List common sources of stress.
Describe techniques for preventing and managing stress.
Describe Life Management and Skills for Successful Stress Management.
Chapter #3
Describe what it means to be psychologically healthy.
Explain how to develop and maintain a positive self-concept and healthy self-esteem.
Discuss the importance to psychological health of an optimistic outlook, good
communication skills, and constructive approaches to dealing with anger.
Discuss Anger and Conflict Resolution Skills.
Chapter #9
Define and discuss the concepts of addictive behavior, substance abuse and substance
dependence.
Explain factors contributing to drug use and dependence.
List the major categories of psychoactive drugs, and describe their effects,
methods of use, and potential for abuse and dependence.
Evaluate the role of drugs and other addictive behaviors in your life, and identify
your risk factors for abuse and dependence.
Identify the "new" psychoactive drugs of choice.
Chapter #10
Explain how alcohol is absorbed and metabolized by the body.
Describe the immediate and long-term effects of drinking alcohol.
Define alcohol abuse, binge drinking, and alcoholism, and discuss their effects
on the drinker and others.
Chapter #11
List the reasons people start using tobacco and why they continue to use it.
Explain the short- and long-term health risks associated with tobacco use.
Discuss the effects of environmental tobacco smoke on nonsmokers.
Describe the social costs of tobacco, and list actions that have been taken
to combat smoking in the public and private sectors.
Discuss spit tobacco health risks.
Chapter # 12
Describe the Recommended Dietary Allowances, Food Guide Pyramid, and Dietary
Guidelines for Americans.
Explain how to use food labels to make informed choices about foods.
Compute daily caloric requirements.
Explain nutritional choices relating to cancer.
Chapter #13
Define physical fitness, and list the health-related components of fitness.
Explain the wellness benefits of exercise.
Discuss how to eat and drink for exercise, how to assess fitness, and how to
prevent and manage injuries.
Put together a personalized exercise program that you enjoy and that will enable
you to achieve your fitness goals.
Describe lifetime fitness rewards and benefits.
Discuss how body composition is related to fitness choices.
Chapter #14
Explain the health risks associated with obesity.
Discuss different methods for assessing body weight and body composition.
Explain factors that may contribute to a weight problem, including genetic,
environmental, personal and considerations.
Describe lifestyle factors that contribute to weight gain and loss, including
the role of diet, exercise and emotional factors.
Identify and describe the symptoms of eating disorders and the health risks
associated with them.
Design a personal plan for successfully managing body weight.
Chapter #15
List the major components of the cardiovascular system.
Describe the controllable and uncontrollable risk factors associated with cardiovascular
disease and how they develop.
List the steps you can take to lower your personal risk of developing cardiovascular
disease.
List the physiological benefits regarding aerobic exercise.
Discuss risk ratios for cholesterol levels.
Chapter #16
Explain what cancer is and how it spreads.
List and describe common cancers - their risk factors, signs and symptoms, treatments,
and approaches to prevention.
Discuss some of the causes of cancer and how they can be avoided or minimized.
Describe how cancer can be detected, diagnosed, and treated.
List specific actions you can take to lower your risk of cancer.
Chapter #18
List the strategies for protecting yourself from STD's.
Discuss the major symptoms, risks and treatments for the major STD's.
Discuss and explain HIV infections and numbers of cases worldwide and the U.S.
Chapter #24
Describe the methods used to deal with the classic environmental concerns of
clean water, waste disposal, ground water contamination, and the INEEL.
Discuss the effects of rapid increases in human population, and list factors
that may limit or slow world population growth.
Describe the short-term and long-term effects of air, chemical, and noise pollution
and exposure to radiation.
Outline strategies that individuals, communities, and nations can take to preserve
and restore the environment.
Outline and identify in oral projects personal environmental health issues related
to Idaho and the Magic Valley.
EXTRA CREDIT POINTS
Students who wish may earn bonus points by completing outside work as assigned by the instructor. Please see your instructor early for bonus assignments in each unit. It would not be uncommon to raise your grade by one letter by completing bonus work in each unit. CD ROM Chapter tests are usually bonus consideration.
STUDENT STUDY GROUPS
Student study groups are encouraged for help in completing the Unit Study Guides and Oral Projects. Past experience shows that students who regularly study with others experience greater success in this course. Peer tutors are available free of charge, see the instructor if you feel you need help. Don't wait, ask early.
HONESTY POLICY
The student handbook outlines the CSI cheating/honesty policy. Cheating in this class will result in the student receiving a zero. In addition, the student may be asked to drop the class.
DROPS AND NC's
NC"s are not given by this instructor. To avoid receiving an F when your grade is 59% or below, the student must drop the class by the appropriate date in the semester (check the catalog). This instructor will not drop you after the third week of class; it is the responsibility of the student. Instructor consultation may help the process. Come and see me before the problem gets to this point.
ATTENDANCE
Attendance is expected and strongly encouraged.
TIPS FOR SUCCESS
TAKE NOTES
ATTEND CLASS
Don't call if you are sick or absent; ask a friend to take notes.
Complete study guides on time.
Complete assignments on time.
If you know you will be absent, turn your work in with someone else.
Bonus points are available, ASK.
Participate, don't vegetate.
Don't bring cell phones or electronic devices to class.
Don't bring children to class.
Make-ups are no fun. Be there for the exams.
Make-ups are given only once, the next day of regularly scheduled class.
Find my office early in the semester.
Make college fun!
PORTFOLIO'S
What should be Included?
Typewritten commentaries of behavioral changes you have identified and started changing as a result of this class. Begin with a table of contents and end with a summary of your experience in class. The portfolio should be a complete discussion of starting and ending points of your behaviors after gaining knowledge of each topic covered in your reading assignments and classroom presentations. Each topic should be summarized and condensed so that the total topic coverage does not cover more than fifty pages. Here's an example: Your blood pressure measurement is 160/93. What have you learned in this class that could change this factor?
All assignments are to be turned in on or before the dates due. Late assignments will not be accepted.